Also often happens in the form of a fake-out, where the audience is led to believe someone will enter through the door when the camera focuses on it, only to have them burst through the wall somewhere on either side instead.

Frequently lampshaded by someone shouting out the trope name, especially the Deadpan Snarker or the disgruntled owner of the building. Also, keep in mind the old joke about the stupid burglar: he breaks two windows, one to get in and one to get out. The gag can run loose if the person goes through a different place every time, or does it just as the hole is being repaired, much to the frustration of the owner.

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The Kool-Aid Man. OH YEAAAAHHHH!!! Probably justified, as most buildings' entrances are not Kool-Aid Man accessible.

One of the commercials lampshades this; it features his mother, who at first comments how proud she is of him for now having less sugar; the commercial ends with the house shaking and a "MOM! I'M HOME!" and her saying she'd only wish he'd learn to use the door.

Referenced in the first episode of Family Guy, and then parodied in several later episodes. In "Peterotica," a car crashes through the wall of Kool-Aid Man's house, and he remarks "Wow! You know, from the other side, that's kind of annoying." After Kool-Aid has just finished repairing it, he says "Good as new!" — when Peter comes crashing back through the wall, and he shouts "OH, COME ON!!" Also in the courtroom, where the courtroom audience goes "Oh, NO!" and the Kool-Aid Man comes crashing through the wall, "OH YEAH!" When the Kool-Aid Man realizes where he is, he backs out in embarassment. The Judge tells everybody to stop doing that, "'Cause the f*ckin' Kool-Aid Man gonna keep showin' up."

Later revisited in a Call-Back episode to the pilot — this time, Kool-Aid Man misses his cue and looks even more awkward than before. Worse, when he backs out of the room, he falls over on his face and shatters his glass body, causing him to bleed fruit punch and swear at Brian and Stewie for making him screw up.

Also done in Robot Chicken multiple times in one episode. Interestingly, the protagonists of the scenes (who are the same two guys) are intentionally invoking Kool-Aid man even after witnessing his reign of terror.

Dane: Fuck drinking out of him; if that was me, I'd be like, "You fix that fucking wall before my dad gets home from work! He's gonna beat me with a belt; he's not gonna believe a talking bowl of fruit punch came in here." You stupid idiot. Yeah, coming through the wall is real fucking cool! Using the front door is cool!

A Captain Ersatz in the form of a giant glass was once used in an episode of Good Eats, as a form of Writing Around Trademarks. The glass cited budget reasons (as to why it was a glass instead of a pitcher) and offered to get the wall fixed later.

One of the first Three Musketeers commercials (the ones with the eponymous badass trio) had two musketeers burst through the stone wall of the Princess' cell... while the third walked through the door.

A Whiskas cat treats commercial has the cat bursting through the wall (which has several already patched holes in it) to get to the bag of treats.

In the Fruits Basket anime it becomes a Running Gag that people keep destroying Harem Nanny Shigure's house, and he says this line at least once when someone bursts through the screen. In Shigure's case, he's probably good-naturedly remarking on that very fact. Kagura is later shown spending most of the night trying (and failing) to fix the screen after she wrecks it even more than usual.

Shampoo tends to burst through walls in her appearances. When asked why she doesn't use the door, she replies "Door take too long!" From observation, it appears that whenever she's chasing someone (usually Ranma), she focuses on the chase to the exclusion of the building's floorplan. If there happens to be a door in her way, she'll open it, but she won't take an alternate route just because there's a wall in her way. On at least one occasion, she is seen to exit the room by smashing a new hole in the wall, right next to the one she made coming in. When given a hypnotic suggestion to "go home peacefully" she still smashes through a wall as she leaves. It may be a case of Ace Lightning Syndrome — walls are like crackers to her, so it's hard for her to think of them as "structures" so much as "obstacles".

Ryū Kumon, from the late manga, also walks through walls (he's just that strong) in order to intimidate people. Worse, he breaks through an entire wing of walls at Fûrinkan High School, from the ground floor and up to the third floor, completely ignoring the stairs and the doors. Ranma's classmates even feel the tremors and think it is an earthquake.

From the first movie, after Kunō thrusts his way into the living room with his wooden sword:

Pantyhose Tarō also bursts through walls a lot in monster form — but then again, he doesn't fit the door.

Edo Phoenix of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX has a taste for dramatic entrances, i.e. skyboarding into school, jumping from a helicopter through a closed skylight. Would it have been such a tragedy to wait for the chopper to land?

Shuichi Shindo of Gravitation seems to lose his ability to use doors whenever he is excited. This does not please Yuki. Nor is Tohma happy at the damages to his property when an exuberant Shuichi breaks down a wall to deliver his complete album. Yuki lampshades this.

Yuki: Learn how to open a door, you damn brat, I've just moved in here and you're already wrecking the place!

After Vanilla Ice is introduced in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, he uses the power of his Stand to phase a hole into the wall when he goes to attack Jotaro's party. Dio's response: "At least open the door when you leave..."

In Baccano!, Nice blows up the wall of a warehouse when coming to Jacuzzi's rescue. "But Nice, the entrance was right there, why did you blow up the wall?" "Why did she blow up the wall? What kind of stupid question is that? Boss likes blowing things up, so she blew up the wall!"

Princess Tutu contains a scene where Fakir dramatically crashes through a window to gain entrance to a building... even though both Mytho and Tutu were able to easily enter using the door.

Hunter × Hunter. The two main heroes evade an enemy in a subversion. They kick through wall after wall...then double back one room and simply leave by the front door. It works.

The enemy bases tend to have maze-like layouts, so most travel is done by either smashing through walls or jumping over them. This trend reaches its climax during the second Ichigo vs. Ulquiorra battle, where four characters separately bust into the same room through the floor, the inside wall, the outside wall, and from another dimension. (That last one might technically count as a door, since it can be opened and closed without inflicting structural damage).

The design of one Hueco Mundo tower was openly mocked in an omake. The character explaining it claimed that the building was designed without stairs and multiple heavy pillars to allow people to smash through the floors without completely destroying the building.

Grimmjow's epic save of Orihime. To stress just how epically unnecessary this was, Grimmjow blew a hole in the wall when the door, which was destroyed by Loly and Menoly when they entered, was literally three feet away. He even acknowledges the door was open, but says he came through the wall because the door was "busted".

Loly: How'd you get in here!? Grimmjow: How? Through the wall, of course.

Yammy does this so often there's a listing on his character page calling him Kool-Aid Man.

In the Mai-HiME manga, Mai and Mikoto smash into Natsuki's apartment through the window to rescue Tate. Natsuki's response? "You guys are going to owe me for that window. Why didn't you use the DOOR?" Apparently window-smashing is Mikoto's stock in trade.

In the second episode of Arcade Gamer Fubuki, Mr. Mystery jumps through Fubuki's window to give her a card. He then jumps out another window to make his exit. Umm...

Mr. Yotsuya of Maison Ikkoku frequently uses a log to break through the wall between his apartment and Godai's.

The Raikage in Naruto takes "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" to a new and completely awesome extreme, starting with his own office window. Judging from his assistant's response, he apparently does this a lot. Whether it be a wall, a person, a table, Amaterasu fire and the Susanoo absolute defense, and even the ground, god help whatever happens to be between the Raikage and his goal, because by the time he gets there, it no longer exists. At one point he does it to a wall in a room that was being used for a diplomatic meeting. Granted, he was in a hurry. It has now become a Running Gag for the Raikage to break a wall and exit, after which Darui apologizes for it and remarks to C that he will just use the door.

Natsu does this often. Kageyama lampshaded Natsu's searching method during the Lullaby arc.

Kageyama: Has this guy never heard of a door?

Gildarts, Up to 11. He's so accident prone with his Crush powers that the whole city of Magnolia took extreme measures by mechanically rearranging the whole city on his arrival so that he would not accidentally destroy some buildings on his way straight to the Fairy Tail Guild!

The Crimson Alchemist prefers blowing walls up as opposed to opening doors.

Ed and his teacher Izumi might count as an inversion; on several occasions they transmute doors on walls that didn't already have them, so they can enter through said doors rather than smashing the wall.

Code Geass R2 has a magnificent example: when the UFN council is unwilling to admit Britannia among themselves since Britannia would get absolute majority due to its population and essentially hand the world over to the Britannian Emperor, Lelouch responds by pointing skyward. Seconds later, Suzaku crashes through the ceiling with the Lancelot, Dual WieldingVARIS rifles and announcing that he "will not tolerate any insolence towards His Majesty!"

Piedmon from Digimon Adventure tears through several walls when hunting down the Digidestined through his palace. Likely at least some of them is likely because it's a quicker path. But in the end, when chasing TK and Kari, the only two he hasn't captured, he comes across the door to the outside were they'd be trapped. Instead of opening the door, he decides to blow it up to make a dramatic entrance. Large Ham that he is, he lampshades this:

Piedmon: I must stop this, it costs me a fortune in new doors!

Also used in Digimon Adventure 02, when Greymon and Angemon fight a trio of digimon at Versailles Palace in France, who smash through a window to take the fight outside, causing TK's grandpa to cry "Hey, use the door next time!"

In Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu has a known habit of taking the most direct route in or out of a dangerous situation — walls or windows be damned. Ben chides him for it in the first episode, reminding him that entering monorails through the front window will just up the premium on his Hero Insurance.

A hilarious subversion when Cell arrives at the TV station and blows up the entrance, but the automatic glass door is still intact, and Cell uses the door, despite the big freaking hole around the door. Then it's played straight when he just crushes the floors to reach the right TV channel.

Done earlier in the original series. When Goku is laying siege on the Red Ribbon Army, he comes to a room with no stairs, but there's an elevator. Goku doesn't know what an elevator is, so since there's no stairs he gets up to the next floor by jumping and crashing the floor above him.

In Assassination Classroom, Itona introduces himself by plowing through the wall to enter class. When everybody complains, he says he wanted to show off his strength.

Black Lagoon. In "Roberta's Blood Trail", Columbian cartel members burst into a hotel room expecting to find an American special forces unit only to find an empty hotel room and a series of holes blown through the adjacent walls. And a Booby Trap.

Musician Wendy Bagnell's "Here Come the Rattlesnakes" features a hypothetical example. Once, when performing at what turned out to be a church of snake-handlers, he relates his and his backup singer's reactions when the eponymous reptiles are produced:

''I said, "Just take it easy! Don't panic. Just look around, and figure out where the back door is." She said, "I already looked, and there ain't none!" I said, "Reckon where do they want one?"

Comic Books

The Marvel Adventures line is created for all ages. In their re-telling of the 'Infinity Gauntlet' story we learn that Doctor Doom considers regular doors for peasants. Doom smashes in through the wall, even for diplomatic meetings.

In one of the X-Babies appearances (perhaps Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem), there's a sequence where — of course — the door is not used.

Kitty Pryde:[exasperated] Classic X-Men style, guys: Never use a door when you can make one of your own!

Note that the above remark is from someone whose power allows her to walk through walls. On that note, while Kitty does phase through walls, she at least has the courtesy to phase through the door.

From Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run, Danger has teamed up with Sufficiently Advanced Alien Ord of the Breakworld to invade the X-Mansion (again). The superstrong and mildly berserk Ord is bashing through everything in his path, ripping doors off their hinges and generally making a mess.

In an issue, the X-Men are imprisoned in Murderworld. Cyclops faces three doors, and Arcade tells him one of them leads to life, the two others lead to death. Cyclops takes a fourth option and just blasts through the side wall, which turns out to be the right move because all three doors were trapped. (There's a reason Arcade calls his personal amusement park "Murderworld"...)

Heck, the X-Men were doing this as far back as the fifth issue. Professor Xavier has been depowered, so the X-Men have to break him into his own house to get him some rest. Cyclops blasts the front door despite the fact that the key was right there.

Rorschach in the Watchmen comic does use doors. They're just usually locked. The sequence of events goes something like this: Rorschach breaks into his old partner Dan Dreiberg's apartment by smashing the lock. Dan has the lock replaced. Rorschach breaks the new one effortlessly. Dan has the lock replaced a second time. Then the police try to break in, and the lock holds, but the door itself smashes to pieces. But really the lock makers were asking for this. After all their company is called GordianLocks.

The Juggernaut is fond of this means of travel, particularly in X3. Well, he was chasing Shadowcat, and HE'S THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH, so... Then again, what good are doors for a person larger than the door frame?

In an issue of Young Justice, former heroine Cissie King-Jones has been captured at her school. As Red Tornado breaks down the wall, and Wonder Girl smashes through the window, she says "We have doors here, you know! Only superheroes could turn entering a room into a 'who is muy macho?' competition!"

Inverted completely in one Spider-Man comic where Silver Sable has The Daily Bugle contact Spidey to ask to meet with him. Spidey decides to be direct, and simply go to the office waiting room of the Symkarian Embassy; eventually, Silver comes out, upset because he's scaring away her appointments, and asks, "Don't you usually come in through the window?"

During Peter David's run on the Hulk, when he had the brains of Banner in the Hulk's body, he decides to sneak out the back way by creating a back way. Subverted in a later punch up with Captain America, where despite being inside a fragile house, nothing is damaged. He's thrown cleanly out the front door thanks to Cap's judo skills.

Broken subversion in Earth X: Bruce Banner (separated from the Hulk) appears to be telling Hulk to be careful with Dr. Strange's walls. But he tells Hulk "We don't need to use a door here", apparently a typo for "We need to use a door" or "We don't need to make a door". Hulk use door anyway.

Played with: The two protagonists find themselves in a cell with a steel door. Filemón starts making a hole in the wall, all the while brushing off Mortadelo who's trying to tell him something. When, after considerable time, he finally breaks through the wall, he finds Mortadelo there waiting for him — it turns out that the bad guys forgot to lock the door...

In another case, a number of prisoners are discovered to have escaped through an equal number of Man-Shaped Holesfrom the same cell. Lampshaded when Filemón comments on how stupid one would have to be to not just use the same hole for everybody... only to find out that the thought hadn't occurred to either his partner or his boss, either.

Yet another case was an inversion of the standard scheme: Filemón attempts to pick the lock on a door but eventually has to give up, only to find that in the meantime, Mortadelo has made a very artistic new door by "having some fun with [his] penknife".

Lampshaded in Fantastic Four #286, guest-starring The Avengers, where the two teams help Jean Grey get back into her old life after being replaced by the Phoenix for so long. They take her to parents' house but they weren't home, so Hercules breaks down the door and is chewed out by Jean, who points out that there was a key beneath a paving stone meant for her and her sister. Captain America assures her they'll write her parents a check.

Batman never uses a door if a window will suffice. Why? Because he's the goddamn Batman.

Superman: Super strong, super fast, can fly, is invincible, has X-ray vision, heat vision, can time travel, can't work a doorknob.

He does it so often, in fact, that Jimmy once caught him with the "bucket over the door" gag by putting the bucket over a random spot in the wall, which Supes of course broke right through.

Krypton No More: It happens the whole time. Villain Protector breaks into the Fortress of Solitude by blasting a wall (and an armored door). Later Superman bursts in Protector's partner Radion's base by flying through the floor. And in the first panel of the third issue, Superman bursts in mob boss Simeon's lair by demolishing a wall.

In issue #240, a mother and two kids are trapped on the top floor of a burning skyscraper. Superman leaps upwards, falls on the building's roof, breaking it, and lands inside the top floor.

In issue #241 Superman bursts through the wall of the Edge's apartment. This time he had no a good cause.

Superman: I don't feel like using doors — or windows either! The wall is good enough for me!

And let's not forget our friend, Doomsday. He pretty much won't go anywhere, unless there's something in his way to smash to pieces. Granted he's basically violence incarnate, so he may just smash stuff because he likes to.

Parodied by Kyle Baker in one issue of his run on Plastic Man. Superman is nearly kept from his face-off with (then-president) Lex Luthor because the recent crisis had him rethinking his disregard for public property, and the little old lady receptionist guarding the door wouldn't let him in. Later, its exaggerated by Superman's evil twin, who refuses to use, not just the door, but the hole he left in the wall the first time.

Supergirl: Just as her cousin, Kara is super-strong, invulnerable and can fly. Unlike Superman she is a headstrong, impatient teenager. So who cares if there was a door? She is trying to save people and that wall/ceiling was in her way!

In the first issue of Supergirl Vol 1, Supergirl is trying to prevent a murder and she is running out of time, so she flies through a wall to save the would-be victim.

In the first issue of Supergirl Vol 2, Kara flies in a factory through a smokestack and bursting through a furnace's hatch.

In the Day of the Dollmaker arc, Supergirl flew through the wall of the lair of Dollmaker to rescue Cat Grant.

In Last Daughter of KryptonSimon Tycho is looking for Supergirl as she's tearing his base and his troops down. Right when he is demanding that someone shows him where she is, the ground in front of him explodes and Supergirl flies in through the gap.

This is a common problem for Ben Grimm in most universes, due to being a giant rock-man. In fact, his first appearance had him involuntarily smashing through a wall and muttering, "Why must they build doorways so narrow?"

In an Ultimate Fantastic Four/Marvel Zombies crossover, Ultimate Reed Richards finds himself trapped in the Marvel Zombie universe with Magneto and a handful of human survivors. They are found by the rest of the Ultimate Fantastic Four and hurry to escape the building. Ben heroically breaks down a wall so they can get out and Reed points out that the door was right there.

There's one strip in which Jon calls Garfield to dinner. Garfield comes bounding up to Jon from off panel. Jon says, "I appreciate your promptness, Garfield...." and finishes in the last panel, "... but next time, OPEN THE DOOR!", revealing that Garfield broke through the (closed) door. Could be justified in that Garfield is a cat and can't work a doorknob (at least at that point in the strip's history; he's seen opening doors plenty of times later on), but....

There's also one where he comes through the pet door, but gets stuck inside because he's too fat and thus rips the normal door from its hinges anyway. Also, he repeatedly kicked Nermal out the front door without opening it first.

And there's another wherein he smashes the front door down and says, "When I want in, I want in NOW!"

Happens in yet another strip when Jon yells "FIRE!" to test his pets' fire drill knowledge. Both run straight through the wall — or, rather, we assume they did, thanks to the hole.

Tired of the mess Garfield and Odie were making, Jon opened the door and told them to go outside. They jumped through the window. Berating his pets, Jon told them to use the door next time. Of course, they did so — breaking through the closed door while reentering. Jon sarcastically thanked them.

She was interrupted when Kizo smashed through the outer wall of the building. The Kryptonian deliberately avoided crushing the communications board against the wall. He thought he might have use for that. But it was fun to make an entrance like this, and note the fear and surprise in his enemies' eyes. Superman must have done it like this.

In one chapter, Jade is at a shrine, going after a Shadowkhan tablet version of a Tome of Eldritch Lore, and is attacked and thrown through the wall repeatedly, and when she says she is tired of it, he throws her through the roof instead. After that, though he doesn't say anything, she just bursts through the wall.

"Spectre" Garrus Vakarian demonstrates his disdain for the traditional methods of entry by repeatedly knocking down walls with a cargo hauler to surprise groups of mercenaries. In his own words:

Garrus Vakarian: I've yet to encounter a potentially dangerous situation that can't be defused by smashing through a wall.

This backfires a bit when He revisits the first warehouse (going through another wall of course) and finds the guy he needs to talk to has gone through the first hole and stole a car. Garrus's response to this? Borrow a tank from C-Sec.

Later on, the Scrin Battlemind routinely slams through walls so much that Garrus gets annoyed that it's stealing his moves.

Doubles as a Continuity Nod in the beginning of chapter 6 of Port-Ed, as Ed once again sticks his foot through the door instead of using the knob. "Ed, there's a thing called a doorknob, you might wanna use it!!"

In chapter 10, it is played straight, averted, and lampshaded at the same time when four police offers ambush Jericho]] and Lightning Dust, which then later gets justified and invoked. Jericho does not like it.

Super Therapy!: At the end of the session "Avengers Therapy!", Hulk smashes through the wall to exit... despite the doctor having asked the Avengers to stop breaking things a minute ago.

Dr. Lynn Matthews: F*ckin' superheroes...

In the Discworld fics of A.A. Pessimal, student Assassins are explicitly discouraged from the direct approach via any convenient door and are actively taught to seek alternatives that give them the advantage of surprise. Even when the door is unguarded and undefended. Of course, sometimes students trained by Johanna Smith-Rhodes might associate "ensure the doorway is clear" with "use lots and lots of explosives as a lockpick". Johanna herself is no stranger to creating access doorways where hitherto none previously existed. The non-Guild inhumation that brought her a career offer from the Guild is a demonstration of this character quirk. note She inhumed a Howondalandian warlord in a well-guarded kraal by going in through a previously non-existent back door and blowing it to smithereens

Marionettes: When the Mane Six hear Trixie screaming from the Castle of Friendship's bathroom, Rainbow Dash knocks the door down. Twilight gets annoyed and points out she had the key.

Metal crumpled and bent under her fingers, and with a short yank, she almost ripped the door off its hinges. Purplish smoke escaped from the opening. “It wasn’t locked, you know,” the figure on the throne commented drily, far less impressed than his court wizard.

Later, Megamind busts through the wall with the fist of his giant robot, this time out of frustration. Bonus points for the fact that there was already a hole there, thanks to Hal himself, and Megamind just enlarged it.

Ralph crashes through a wall himself on the kart he and Vanellope baked together. Justified as the door is blocked by the cops, and they need a speedy exit. A few feet in either direction, however, would have yielded Destination Defenestration instead.

Earlier in the movie, Ralph shatters the cupcake he's stuck in by jumping out of Sugar Rush's castle. There are two large double-door-style windows on either side and he instead plunges straight through the sugarcube/brick wall.

And Later, he bursts through the walls of the Fungeon cells where both Felix and Vanellope are detained. Sure, the door was certainly locked in both cases; not that it make any difference...

Kung Fu Panda 2. The Furious Five go to bust out Masters Storming Ox and Croc out of their prison cell.

Po: We're going to free you from the bonds of injustice, no problem! [shakes bars] There's got to be a key around here... no, they wouldn't leave the key around here... [Tigress knocks the cell door off its hinges with a single palm strike] Oh good, you found it!

In JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, Dawnstar and Karate Kid arrive from the future and try to enter the Hall of Justice. When they are unable to figure out how to open the glass doors, they blast their way inside.

From Despicable Me 2, in the flashback showing just how macho "El Macho" was, he exits from a bar through the wall.

The villains in Superman II do this a lot, especially when they take over the Daily Planet office, with Lex Luthor delivering the line.

This is a Call-Back to the first movie when Superman tracks Luthor down to his hidden lair, and dramatically smashes through the wall rather than use the door, causing Lex to quip "It's open! Come in!". In the second movie, then, he's muttering to himself that not knowing how doors work seems to be a problem for Kryptonians in general.

Iorek Byrnison in The Golden Compass film does this after getting back his armor, though in this case it's probably symbolic of him no longer being subservient to humanity (or its etiquette) since he is a giant Ice Bear. Or he opted not to use the door because he knew there'd be guards pointing rifles at it.

In Superhero Movie, Hourglass blows a hole in a wall to exit, 10 feet from the hole he blew in the wall to enter.

Lampshaded in The Mummy Returns, while fleeing Imhotep's mummified soldiers, Evie tries blocking the entrance with a nearby chair. Rick, however, having learned a thing or two in the previous film pulls his wife along reminding her that "these guys don't use doors." Sure enough, a few seconds later, the mummies are busting through the wall above the door.

Reversed in Balls of Fury: In a brief scene, a team of soldiers attempts to break through an armored door with a battering ram. Another soldier off to the side simply takes his gun and smashes through the window right next to the door.

Done in a way where during a gun fight, one of the defenders breaks a small window in a 5x4 window frame. The next defender breaks a new window and so forth. In the end a very small man shows up and he jumps in front of the window while under heavy fire for about 15 seconds before he manages to break and fire out of the last window, which was on the top row.

Then done again with a 3x3 window, only this time with only two defenders who smash "X" and "O" shaped holes in the windows, when one of the defenders manages to get three "O"-es in a row, the window gets blasted out.

Then again with the black defender "Chocolate Mousse" who grabs a cannon, lights the fuse and rams the muzzle through the window to shoot.

In The Film of the SeriesS.W.A.T., the team uses a huge grappling hook attached to a truck to smash through a house's outer wall and pull out a large chunk. This allows the team to get the drop on the crazy armed man inside. Somehow, the crazy man failed to notice the big truck engine roaring outside, the noise of the winch, etc. (The original TV series was also noted for such lapses in story logic.) In this case, it is marginally excusable, however, as in addition to his Hollywood Schizophrenia the guy was as drunk as a lord.

S.MJR MacNutt squeezes through a thin man-sized crack in the wall of Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond's dining room in Carry On... Up the Khyber during a war outside the house. Sir Sid points out that the hole is right next to large double doors that could've been used instead but MacNutt states that his news is far too important to care about something like that.

Interestingly, in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Scott enters the lab through the wall, but not because it was in the script. It was because the set builders had forgotten to build an extra door!

David in Shaun of the Dead smashes the window of The Winchester to get in (causing security problems later) before Shaun has a chance to tell him there's another, unlocked door round the back.

And in Hot Fuzz, by the same creative team, Nicholas Angel breaks a glass storefront and jumps through it to pursue a killer. Keep an eye on the writing on the glass panes. He throws his baton through the window, then jumps through the door.

Reversed in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, by the same director: After throwing Scott through several walls, Todd looks as though he's about to fly through the holes he's made... but then he teleports to the last wall and calmly opens the door next to the hole in it.

Men with Brooms: Cutter is laying on his bed in his motel room while next door, his former curling team mate Lennox is trying to avoid being beaten into a new reincarnation by a very large, very angry loan shark. At one point, Lennox abruptly gets sent head-first through the wall over Cutter's bed, before being sent through the wall entierly, followed by the giant loan shark. Cutter ends up having to knock the loan shark out by smashing his head in with a curling stone.note Not to worry, the loan shark is Made of Iron and survives one or two more such curling stones to the head with no apparent long term effects. Because it's funny.

Parodied in the final scene of Malibu's Most Wanted when the epic battle between B-Rad's crew and the bad guys happens in the head Bad Guy's house. Two different cars smash through the wall of his house, causing him to shriek: "Doesn't anyone know where the damn driveway is?!" To add to the hilarity, Bad Guy is later seen yelling at the cops to fix the house before his mother gets back.

Inverted in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. While Joe is trying to devise a way to get into the professor's lab through an upper-story window, Polly picks up a rock, breaks the glass on the front door, reaches in and opens it.

Countess: Wait! I have to replace every door you people smash. Can't you at least try the knob first? Sebastian:(vampire in front tries the knob and it opens easily) Jocks.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Duke is told the bad guys are driving along the next street over, but there's no door through to them. He's told, "Make one" and so smashes through the building in his Powered Armor.

A Good Day to Die Hard. An FSB Alpha Team attacks the CIA safehouse, so Jack McClane whacks a frame charge against the wall and blows a nice rectangular exit. For the rest of the movie however they just jump out the window.

Captain America: Civil War gives us an interesting Lampshade Hanging. The Vision, being able to phase through solid matter, enters Wanda's room through the wall. When Wanda objects, he says that he thought it was okay to come in because the door was open. Cap and Wanda quickly point out that the door being open isn't enough, you have to use it. He promptly exits through the door.

Edge of Tomorrow. The protagonists are wearing Powered Armor, so when they need to make use of an abandoned car quickly (knowing that the enemy is waiting in ambush) they just rip the doors off, which also gives them room to dive inside wearing said armor.

Royal Flash (1975). Flashman makes a token attempt at waving his saber at the Afghan attackers, then tries to flee back into the fort, only to find the gates have been locked behind him. Fortunately an explosion blasts a door-shaped hole in the wall next to him.

Blade Runner 2049. When the Wallace Corporation are attacking Deckard's hideout, an Attack Drone fires a missile through the window, blowing up his spinner as he's running to it. To stop Deckard from being killed in the explosion, Officer K smashes straight through the wall and tackles him. Then a Wallace spinner flies through the subsequent hole into the building and offloads their mooks.

Sorcerers tend to disregard niceties such as doors when irritated or in a hurry, frequently using their powers to blast through doors, walls, or in Garion's case in the second series, entire buildings, making this a crossover with Dungeon Bypass.

Garion makes a point of threatening the pre-Heel–Face Turn Zakath with a broken city when he finally decides he's been delayed long enough... and smashes through a few walls while going to make this threat.

Garion: Take me to the library, now![Garion points his sword at the wall and it blasts outwards; he re-aims while the emperor looks on in terror]Garion: Now... the library is about that direction, isn't it?'

Velvet:[chiding him gently] Belgarion, now really, that's no way to behave. Kal Zakath has been a very courteous host. I'm sure that now that he understands the situation, he'll be more than happy to cooperate, won't you, your Imperial Majesty? [smiling winsomely at the Emperor] We wouldn't want the Rivan King to get really angry, now would we? There are so many breakable things about — windows, walls, houses, the city of Rak Hagga — that sort of thing.

Played straight and then inverted (and almost literally invoked) when Garion smashes down Senji's locked door, and then Belgarath makes him fix it, which Garion does by pointing at the shattered doorframe and creating a new door via sorcery by saying "Door." Belgarath is not amused by his choice of Word.

Skulduggery Pleasant. Skulduggery and Valkyrie tend to use windows, even when it's unnecessary, because "Doors are for people with no imagination."

At one point in the series, Jake morphs into a rhinoceros to charge through a compound. He finds that it's easier to rhino through doors than walls, but his vision is so bad in that shape that he has a little trouble seeing which is which in time.

Averted later in the same book when Jake (now a tiger) tells Marco (a gorilla) to open a door. Marco prepares to knock the door off its hinges, for Jake to tell him to try the knob first. He does.

In the Discworld novel Thief of Time, Myria Le Jean is talking to some fellow Auditors. When they want to go through a door, one glances at it, and the door disintegrates. Ms. Le Jean observes this and says "Doorknob was simpler."

Harry does this by pulling a door outward (to avoid deadly shrapnel hitting those inside the building) in order to make a dramatic wizard entrance.

Marcone, being Genre Savvy, starts using cheap doors because of the regularity with which Harry does this.

In And Another Thing..., Thor leaves through the ceiling, causing Hillman to complain to Zaphod that ceiling tiles are so expensive, and why Thor "just couldn't use the door". Zaphod replies: "He's a God. He doesn't do doors". (Or something very similar).

In one of the stories in If I Were an Evil Overlord (a collection of short stories inspired by the Evil Overlord List) the royal family is barricaded behind a magical door. The invading empress orders her men to tear down the wall instead.

In Paper Towns, Q and his friends end up breaking through the boarded-up windows of the mini-mall when they couldn't get the doors open by pulling. Later on, Q realizes the doors open inwards and finds that they weren't locked at all.

In the Zachary Nixon Johnson series, the genetically engineered superhuman Twoa Thompson enjoys acting like a superhero, which includes smashing through walls even when it's not necessary.

Zach: Twoa, you do realize I have a perfectly good door?

Twoa: I'm a mega-human superhero! I need no door!

She doesn't make any holes in the wall, but Jadis gets into a walled orchard by climbing over the wall, despite the fact that there was a gate, and it was unlocked.

In The Meteor MenaceDoc Savage does through a ceiling by grabbing a rafter with one hand and punching a hole in it with the other.

Clark does this on occasion, but you are not an evil kryptonian if you break down every door you see.

"Kara": Kara pulls an elevator's doors apart. An annoyed Clark says if she had just waited a few seconds, they would have opened. Kara retorts that this "inferior Earth technology" is too slow.

"Absolute Justice, Part 1": Hawkman smashes through the windows of the Watchtower to dump Oliver in front of Chloe.

And in the Grand Finale, Clark crashes through the top of the Fortress and flies into the sky as he changes into Superman. Who cares, it is awesome.

This happened at the end of the KYTV episode that spoofed the opening of the Channel Tunnel. A Running Gag through the episode was a reporter standing next to the tunnel, waiting for the first train to arrive. Which it eventually did, bursting out of the wall ten feet to the left of the tunnel.

Mab: We thought we'd enter the traditional way, through the door. Merlin: It's traditional that you open it first.

There is a Gilligan's Island episode where the title millstone dreams of being a swashbuckling hero. He breaks through the door to meet the Distressed Damsels, then closes a second door in the same frame and breaks through it.

In the opening of one episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine Jake elaborately plans smashing through a window to catch a perp, despite there being a single door to the apartment he was using as a hideout. He thinks he's incredibly cool, but his superiors are frustrated because they have to fill out extra paperwork.

On Friends Chandler apologises to Monica for an argument by proposing. Monica assures him he didn't need to propose and asks what he'd have done if she'd said yes. and Chandler says he would have been happy, or "there would have been a Chandler shaped hole in that wall."

Mike: How about a bit of consistency? Some days you come through the door... some days you actually open it...

Subversion, all thanks to Vyvyan again, when a messenger wanted to come through the door normally...

Rick: Oh, no! The front door's exploded. VYVYAN! Mike: VYVYAN! Vyvyan: Vyvyan! Vyvyan! Vyvan! Honestly, whenever anything explodes in this house, it's always blame Vyvyan! Mike: Well who do you suggest we blame? Rick: Thatcher! Vyvyan: No, blame whoever rang the front doorbell, 'cause they obviously triggered the bomb I'd set up. Mike: What bomb? Vyvyan: Well, I was a bit worried we wouldn't be able to hear the front doorbell, so I thought I'd pep it up a bit!

One episode has an obnoxiously intelligent patient lock the door on Dr. Kelso. He enters the room anyway by stealing Janitor's electric screwdriver and removing the hinges and kicking the door down. He does this again on the same patient, despite the door being unlocked, because he likes the dramatic entrance (watch the scene).

Laverne once punched through the window of Turk's car before Carla could tell her We Have the Keys.

Laverne:LAVERNE ROBERTS![punches window]Carla: What are you doing!? I had the keys!

In season five episode eight ("My Big Bird") J.D. gets kicked through the window of a former patient's window. Turk later comes crashing through as well, with the patient yelling that "There is a door!"

Frequently in the first season, instead of merely opening a door, Angel would kick it open dramatically (often breaking it). The recapper on Television Without Pity speculated that Angel just really hated doors. Sometimes doesn't quite work the way a normal person would use it. Being a vampire, he can't enter a home where he hasn't been invited. That's why he brings a human partner, who can enter an apartment uninvited.

In one early episode, he bursts through a window... and later gets a bill for it.

In another episode, Wesley and Gunn break into a house to steal a MacGuffin. Wesley makes a big deal of cutting a perfect hole in a window. Gunn simply opens the unlocked door.

Glory once decides to make an entrance by ripping out the entire wall.

Bad guys liked to smash through the windows all the time. Thank goodness Xander develops carpentry skills. Oddly, despite repeated instances, the windows are never armored. To his credit, Xander does eventually realize the futility of repairing windows that were smashed through on a weekly basis and just gives up. What makes it funnier? Once he gives up on fixing the picture window (which at that point was getting smashed in seemingly every otherTuesday, he just boarded it up with cheap particle board. From that point on, nobody ever tried to break into the house again.

The sound of wood splintering, followed by Baldrick dragging the front door in to Lord Blackadder's Breakfast Room.

Edmund: Baldrick, I advise you to make the excuse you are about to give, phenomenally good! Baldrick: You said "Get the door." Edmund: Not good enough, you're fired! Baldrick: But my lord! I've been in your family since 1532! Edmund: So's syphillis, now get out!

Also the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells throws Baldrick through two separate doors in Blackadder's home.

Lord Flashheart punches Percy through the door of the throne room for daring to stand in his place at Blackadder's ill-fated wedding.

In the pilot, Michael marks areas on a drug dealer's wall with duct tape as targeting for where he'll a) shoot him in the leg with a gun and homemade suppressor, and b) crash through the wall.

Michael:[voiceover] Any two-bit thug has a bulletproof door, but they rarely realize that a wall is rarely more than drywall and plaster. [a little later...] I don't like guns, guns make you stupid. Better to fight your battles with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

In "False Flag", Sam and Mike kick an air conditioner out of a wall so they can escape some gunmen through the resulting hole.

Michael:[voiceover] People watch doors and windows. They don't watch air conditioners.

The season 1 finale "Loose Ends" has Michael drive his brother's pickup truck through a warehouse wall. They were in a hurry to rescue Fiona from more gunmen and Mike's voiceover notes that warehouse doors are often reinforced:

Michael:[voiceover] A warehouse door is going to be reinforced, but the walls aren't. And the areas under the windows don't have load-bearing beams.

The season 3 finale has Sam and Fi drive her coupe through the front of a house. This was purely to scare the living daylights out of the small-time arms dealer on the opposite side prior to interrogation. Remarked on by Sam in the next scene:

Sam: You know, you never really know a car until you've driven it through a wall. This little baby did good!

Children are in trouble, but the doors are locked, and Mickey is desperately trying to think of a way to get in. K-9 just says "We are in a car."

In the 2010 Christmas Special, upon being asked why he entered through the window, the Doctor answers "Because if I was going out the window, I'd be going the wrong way. Pay attention."

In "The Pyramid at the End of the World", the Doctor walks out of his TARDIS to find that it's been loaded onto a UN aircraft flying to the crisis area. When he asks how they got his TARDIS out of the room it was stored in, as the windows aren't big enough, he's told: "They are now."

One of the episodes of It Takes a Thief (2005) features a store with a massive steel door, multiple locks and one smug store-owner who was sure they wouldn't be able to get in through it. He was right, they just smashed through the brick wall.

Clarissa Explains It All Sam always enters the Darling household through Clarissa's upstairs bedroom window via a ladder. Even on the rare occasions he comes through the first floor, generally after finding that Clarissa isn't in her room, he comes in through the window beside the door. There's a specific reason why he chooses to go to Clarissa's window: he hates her younger brotherFerguson so much he uses the ladder to avoid him. Lampshaded in one episode where, after Sam leaves, Clarissa's father asks "Why doesn't that kid ever use the door?"

Windows were usually Shawn Hunter's choice of entry in earlier seasons.

Eric did it once or twice as well, most notably in the graduation episode when he was trying to persuade Mr. Feeny not to retire.

When the Monkeemen burst in in The Monkees' episode, "Monkee Chow Mein," the Yellow Peril villain Dragonman (Joey Forman) protests: "The door was open!"

One Pit Stop on Season 5 of The Amazing Race was located on a small island, which Kami & Karli swam to. Upon arriving, they were told by Phil, "That was quite an entrance. Everyone else just walked through the shallow water over there."

The 3rd Rock from the Sun episode "Dick is from Mars, Sally is from Venus" has Sally going out with a student at the college, only to be unceremoniously dumped. After waiting by the phone overnight, thinking he's going to call, she ends up paying a visit to his apartment....

The intro to RoboCop: The Series shows various scenes from the show occasionally interrupted by someone trying to punch through a giant reinforced door from the other side. Finally, as the music reaches the climax, the last punch sends the door flying, revealing everybody's favorite cyborg lawman.

M*A*S*H: It's Colonel Flagg's trademark that nobody ever sees him leave: "I am like the wind." So he demands that everyone cover their eyes. A few seconds, then:

(tinkling sounds)Hawkeye:(peering out the newly-broken window) The wind just broke his leg.

A variation of the trope occurs on an episode of Eureka when Carter retrieves a Nobel Prize by smashing the glass pane of a display case.

Stark: It was open.

Even more common for Batman in the 1966 Batman series than for his comic book counterpart.

In the 2006 Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, martial artists Wu Yidao and Miao Renfen smash through three walls in a row when kicking off their Interesting Situation Duel.

Invoked by accident in Everybody Loves Raymond: Ray and Debra suddenly hear a loud noise approaching their house... Seconds later, a car comes blazing into the living room and totals the front entrance of their house. The car stops, and two people get out — Frank, who was just an unwitting passenger, and the real culprit Marie. The poor woman had no idea that the brakes were out on the car.

Eddie, being the designated recipient of each week's AnviliciousAesop, tries to drive a car after failing his license exam, guilty of the classic cliche, "I did it to look cool and impress my girlfriend"- and promptly wipes out half the front entrance of the Winslow household.

Another episode has Eddie and Waldo trying to make sense of a snowmobile — Hilarity Ensues.

[ominous sounds of the snowmobile engine groaning can be heard outside the Winslow household while Carl is in the living room, confused and concerned]Eddie: TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF!!Waldo: I CAN'T, I CAN'T! I'M TRYIN'!! Eddie:WALDOOOOOOOO!!!(snowmobile crashes through the front door in slow-motion with Eddie and Waldo hanging on for dear life, pulverizing the living room; Carl gets bowled over, Eddie and Waldo are flung off the snowmobile to the living room floor; snowmobile roars into the kitchen, crashes through the backdoor and wrecks outside; Harriet and Steve's Aunt Oona dash into the room to find it in utter shambles; long pause as everyone tries to make sense of what just happened)Carl:[gets up, dumbfounded, assesses the damage, then sees Eddie struggling to get up] ... Edward? Eddie:[dazed] ... Yeah?? Carl: Can you move, son? Eddie:[pauses] ... Yeah.... Carl:[growling]THEN I SUGGEST YOURUN.[Eddie leaps up and bolts out the door for his life as Carl chases him down the street]Harriet:[at a loss for words after seeing the carnage inflicted on her house; turns to face Waldo] Waldo? Waldo: 'Sup? Harriet: Is this your snowmobile? Waldo:Yup. What do I owe you for parking?[Harriet begins to approach him ominously; Waldo freezes with fear][Waldo panics, flees in terror]Harriet: COME HERE, WALDO!! COME HERE!! [chases after him]

The phrase "drive-through convenience store" has become infamous on shows such as World's Dumbest... or similar series that show police archive footage or viewer submissions of crimes caught on tape. Simply put, someone drives their car through the front entrance (sometimes side) of a convenience store, strip mall entrance, or any place that has parking in front. This can range from being just a simple accident caused by a doddering 94-year old lady named Gertrude who floored the car by accident when she was trying to brake and park, drivers falling asleep at the wheel and running off the road, a drunken dumbass at the wheel, or a flat-out breaking-and-entering robbery. If the latter case is true, it's also often used as a means to try and hitch something like a chain from the car to an ATM machine so the robbers can try to uproot it from its post the moment they step on the gas. And if it involves actual people having to run for cover to avoid being hit by the car or flying debris, it turns into something in the same vein of Grand Theft Auto — especially if a gas station pump also gets nailed and bursts into flames, along with any unfortunate vehicles nearby.

In the short-lived US run of Hole in the Wall, if players didn't successfully contort themselves to fit through the cutout shapes in the wall, chances are they'd end up destroying part of the foam walls by accident.

Highlander has Richie crash through the second-floor window of an abandoned warehouse on his motorcycle, from the second floor. Justified, probably...he was immortal by then and a sword-swinging immortal was after him.

A Forever Knight episode had a perp do a window jump once after Nick vamped out at him...but Nick used his vampire speed to grab him before he fell. He, unlike Angel in,the earlier example, does *not* have that pesky uninvited vampire problem.

In the Helix episode "Vector," a lab rat infected with The Virus breaks through the glass walls of its own cage and that of a neighboring uninfected rat in order to attack in and spread the virus, even though its Super Strength could've dislodged its cage's lid quite easily.

On the March 25, 2014 broadcast of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a clip was shown talking about Russia's invasion of Crimea, including the fact that tanks were smashing through walls — prompting Stewart to make a Kool-Aid Man joke and complain about their not having just used the door.

In the I Love Lucy episode "Lucy and Superman", Lucy (who is going to pose as Superman) plans to use the (several-story) window. Ethel asks her to find some other way, and Lucy responds that the other way would cause unacceptable property damage.

Ethel: Isn't there any other way Superman enters a room? Lucy: Well, sometimes he comes bursting through the wall, but you know how Fred would feel about that.

Averted in a case where it actually would have been useful in "The Defeat of Superman": Instead of breaking down the door to the basement where Lois and Jimmy are being held, Superman unbolts it and walks inside. The villains quickly close and re-seal the door, and while a confused Superman is wondering what they think that will accomplish, they drop a hunk of kryptonite in through a hole, leaving him too weak to stand, let alone break out. Had he smashed through the door in the beginning, such a plan wouldn't have worked.

On The Golden Girls, the man Sophia is dating sneaks over the fence to their porch to spirit her away, since Dorothy disapproves. He then notices there is a gate.

A variation in the short lived western parody, Best of the West, the heroes are in the town saloon and get in a shootout with villains outside. Sheriff Best breaks a window pane to be able to shoot out the window, and the Deadpan Snarker saloon owner walks over and casually opens the window. Glass is expensive, you know.

In Seinfeld, Jerry jokes during one of his stand-up bits that this is why superheroes have secret identities: not wanting to face complaints after doing this (or potential lawsuits).

Person of Interest. In "Mors Praematura", Vigilance traps Shaw in the cabin of a truck by drilling bolts into the doors after it crashes. Shaw escapes by kicking out the windscreen.

The Drake & Josh episode "Megan's New Teacher" has Drake struggle to climb up a rope to get into Megan's school to help Megan sabotage Josh's teaching evaluation. He then yells for Megan to come up, only for her to come in through the classroom door seconds later.

Drake: How did you get in?

Megan: Through the front door. It's a school, Drake, not a bank.

In a sketch on The Red Skelton Show, Red was trying to keep a bad guy out by locking the door. Said bad guy broke through the wall, went over to the door, unlocked it, walked back out through the hole in the wall, then opened the door from the outside and came in.

The Goodies. In "UF-Friend or UFO" Bill is being chased by what he thinks is an alien, but Tim won't let him in the door, so he orders Graham's robot to open it. The robot promptly disintegrates the door, so Bill can't lock it after him.

[cue shattering glass]Neil: Look out everyone, he's coming through the doors... Vyvyan: BRILLIANT! HE DIDN'T EVEN OPEN THEM!

Pro Wrestling

Parodied by the WWE tag-team The Acolyte Protection Agency, whose "office" consisted of a door, a card table, a cooler full of beer — and no walls. Anybody who walked around the door to try and talk to them was admonished in this manner.

Can arise in Earthdawn due to the Questor for Garlan "Seal Home" power. Garlan grants her questors the power to seal a certain number of windows and doors and keep out any intruders using her magic. Given that, an enemy going up against a sufficiently powerful Questor for Garlan can be better off trying to break through "those flimsy stone walls" rather than a door that has Garlan's power keeping it closed.

This can also happen in Numenera courtesy of a high-tier ability for Glaives called Run Through Walls, added in the Numenera Character Options book. The ability's Exactly What It Says on the Tin; use an action to move, make a Might test to bust through any physical obstacles and leave a hole big enough for your party mates to use.

Video Games

Hilariously inverted in Max Payne, where at one scene you overhear two mafia mooks arguing over how to disarm a bomb planted by the Russians. During their argument, they accidentally set off the bombnote No, not the gree-*BOOM*, killing themselves and severely damaging the wall surrounding the door. The door is untouched, and when Max tries it, the whole wall comes down but leaves the part with the door still standing, with the door still locked.

There are a few straight examples in the Call of Duty series. In Modern Warfare 2, Soap and company need to go through the showers in a gulag by bursting through the wall. (If the player tries to plant the breach charge on the door, Soap will note that the enemies are watching it.) Modern Warfare 3 has a sequence where hostage takers grab a VIP and take him behind a reinforced blast door. Delta Force responds by placing breach charges on the floor above and breaching through the ceiling.

In some areas of X-Men Legends 1 and 2, the doors will be the only interior sections that you can't simply smash your way through. After a big fight, you can easily end up with a forlorn door standing uselessly in the middle of a room with 20 feet of hole on either side of it.

In the Half-Life mod Afraid Of Monsters, the enemies attack by running into the rooms via doors. However, when the player reaches the City Level, they start coming through the walls instead. It effectively makes them jump scares in the process.

In Knights of the Old Republic II, Mandalore and his soldiers board an enemy ship. The Sith set up at the airlock ready to shoot anything that comes through, in a direct Shout-Out to the opening scene from Star Wars. The Mandalorians blow a hole through the wall on their flank, and massacre them.

In another (also not voluntary) instance later in the game, Ma Mole remarks that she thinks Mario and her kids are about to drop in, while Pa Mole says they have to use the door like everyone else. Cue Mario and kids dropping through the roof on a mine cart.

In both the original The Legend of Zelda and Oracle of Seasons/Ages, Links is occasionally forced to pay for bombing or burning down the door to some Grumpy Old Man's home.

In Sonic '06, Shadow breaks into Eggman's lair through the ceiling. Without turning, the Doctor tells him, "Wouldn't the door have been easier?"

Red Faction: Guerrilla provides the player with a sledgehammer of unlikely power. You have the option of bashing your way through walls and windows rather than use the door. This can be a lifesaver when rescuing hostages, running from a horde of drones, and so forth.

In the original: "Don't have a key? Create your own door." Generally only works where the plot requires it.

Yet why exactly walls can get shredded by grenades and yet doors remain unscratched in the face of multiple rockets remains a complete mystery.

The same thing is possible in this game, which allows you to blow holes in almost everything. It's often the best way to get to snipers or MG nests.

Invoked a LOT in Bad Company 2. The walls and doors are all destroyable by rockets and grenades and the like (and doors and fences can be shot and knifed). There's one level in single player where you're trying to spend very little time outside for risk of freezing to death, and you need to run from house to house to get warm. Typically the fastest way to do this was to take a rocket launcher and blow a hole in the next building. How the buildings don't lose their heat after this you'll never know. If you're playing multiplayer, and moving at all, odds are you'll end up doing this a few times in just one match!

Easily done to any door in Nethack. Bash it down, kick it down, whatever. Not to mention you can do the reverse: you can create a door where there wasn't one before.

In Cave Story, Balrog is first introduced doing this. Amusingly, he did enter exactly where the door was, but since he's way too wide to use it, he just busts through the door and the door-sized bits of wall on either side of it. That scene is probably why his Catch Phrase of "Huzzah!" was changed to a Kool-Aid-Man-style "OH YEAH!" in the re-translation of the console and handheld versions. Later in the game, he tends to make his entrances by crashing through ceilings.

At one point in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, you come to a wall with windows that you can't climb through, and you can't blow it up with your Panzerschreck either. You have to lure a Tiger Tank into destroying the wall. In a later level, there's a gate that can only be opened with a bazooka.

After solving the carriage wheel puzzle in Resident Evil 2's second scenario, Mr. X comes crashing through the wall. Then when you're back in the hallway, he smashes back through the same wall.

If there is both a door and window into a building in Resident Evil 4, you can always dive through the window instead of taking the door. However, this isn't usually a good idea, since an intact window will slow down Ganados for a second and give you an advantage.

In Metroid: Other M, after getting his ass handed to him by Samus yet again, Ridley ends up so freaking scared of her that he crashes through a wall in a frantic attempt to get away.

You can technically open doors in God Hand, but it's usually easier to kick them in. That's just the way Gene is.

This is simple expedience in XCOM, especially on terror missions, where civilians are apt to be standing behind doors blocking your way. As one online guide says, "That farmhouse was probably insured anyway."

The game can force you to invoke this from the inside, no less - having half your team inside a UFO and pinned down with the other half outside and unable to reach a doorway in time can be...aggravating. Tossing a grenade against the inside of the exterior wall will give your guys a clear line of fire.

The remake also allows for this-Yahtzee even mentions it: "I got the Heavy to blow a hole on the side of the UFO, leaving the Sniper to Double-Tap the problem out of existence."

The path finding can sometimes result in soldiers deciding to use a window to enter a building even if using the door would result in them traveling the same distance.

In XCOM 2, Andromedons and Sectopods will crash through walls rather than use doors (even big ones), even while idly patrolling their own building as they haven't noticed you yet. It's even worse once they actually notice you and get in attack position, the Sectopod raising several stories tall to wreak even more destruction as it moves.

Collette from Tales of Symphonia has a nasty habit of going through walls instead of using the door, though this is more a testament to her clumsiness than anything else. Lampshaded when interacting with a human-shaped hole in Raine's classroom earns Collette a title.

In Crusader, if you don't have the keycard or lock combination, you can blow open just about any door in the game with explosives instead. This will set the alarm off, however.

In [PROTOTYPE], it is possible to break the walls surrounding the courtyard of a military base, but there are doors on both sides and they are always open.

While never seen occuring onscreen, there are a few mission maps in City of Heroes that suggest this method was used by the villain groups to invade the map. In some of these maps, you'll encounter walls with gaping holes blasted through them and a doorway left untouched. One notable example has you following the very obvious trail of, and eventually catching up with, a huge fire demon.

In Jagged Alliance, this is one of the recommended ways to deal with buildings where the enemy is lurking inside. You could go through the doors, wasting AP and leaving your pointman vulnerable to enemy fire, or you could have your demolitions guy plant a couple of blocks of C4 on the wall, blast open a hole, and then storm in through the back, or even just open a hole to let your snipers with their armor-piercing anti-tank rifles start picking off the enemy.

Subverted in the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. Upon meeting a closed door, Shepard prepares to blast through the window. The love interest then puts Shepard's hand down and knocks on the door. And it works.

In the arcade version of Double Dragon, Abobo makes his debut by punching his way through a brick wall... right next to the actual door of the building.

PAYDAY: The Heist does have SWAT units going through doors to reach you, but they'll eventually start blowing up walls and breaking windows to ambush you by surprise.

The Matrix: Path of Neo has Neo do this to a brick wall in an in-game cutscene once, when there was a door a few feet away.

In the character creation screen of Quest for Glory IV before you pick the class the fighter and the mage make dramatic entrances by breaking their respective doors with a kick and with magic. Then the thief cautiously opens his door.

Diablo III added this in the form of a potion update, allowing you to burst through enemy-summoned walls. Justified, as the "door" may be a yard-long gap filled with lethal toxic puddles, arcane sentry turrets, exploding ice bubbles, lava, or a really angry monster, and your normal teleport ability might be on cooldown or out of gas. So grab your Kulle-Aid and scream "OH YEAH"!

Minecraft being Minecraft, there is no wall in the game that a determined player can't break through. Thankfully averted with Creepers, who won't explode if they don't have a direct line of site to the player, otherwise staying safe at night would be impossible without tons of obsidian.

In Friday the 13th: The Game, Jason can break through certain walls in the camp with his "Rage" skill, either by tearing them down with his bare hands or walking through them like a malevolent Kool-Aid Man.

In Rainbow Six Siege, most walls and floors are breakable and since waltzing through the front door would be tantamount to suicide, blowing down someone's wall and waltzing through it is the next best thing. Of course, there's also the chance that someone would blow a hole right beside an actual doorway.

In the season 2 finale of Sonic for Hire, Both Sonic's enemies and his allies burst through the walls into his apartment to fight... Except Earthworm Jim, who actually uses the door. Sonic complains about losing his deposit, of course.

Bar'd: One time we see Roby the Biker crash into the front door of the Leafy Bar, just narrowly avoiding slamming into Vas. The rest of that day, the bar had a gaping hole that needed repairs.

Parodied in Bear Versus Zombies when Bear scares Jack the rabbit's children, prompting the entire survival group to crash through each and every window in the house one at a time to attack Bear, much to Jack's dismay, and ending in Bear leaving by crashing through the wall in disgust. Despite the fact the front door was open.

In Beyond the Canopy, there is a window in the room, but it's too low for Chief Redwood. So he enlarges it. With his fists.

Siegfried: DOMINIC DEEGAN! I REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE!... You, however, require a new door.

In the same comic, Dominic's older brother Jacob is fond of coming up through the floor to make his entrances. When he tries this on Dominic's house (which was made to prevent such magic entrances), a loud thud is heard, then Jacob is seen knocking on the door and rubbing his head.

Occurs several times, once with Elan, the resident Cloudcuckoolander, bursting through the window with the "the door was open" gag added in. His Dashing Swordsman Prestige Class prevents damage from glass.

In the prequel Start of Darkness, Xykon, after being transformed into a lich, kicks off his Look What I Can Do Now! sequence by surprising Lirian this way.

In one case, a monster chooses to smash through a wall framing an open door. Given that it's a flesh golem, and formerly Crystal, it's possible that it's just that stupid. Later, she bursts right through the wall of Bozzok and Grubwiggler's abode, intent on revenge.

Sawtooth Rivergrinder, a VTOL bulldozer and as such one of the toughest robots around. Who tend to "plot the most efficient route" when humans aren't nearby. When others in the team were stopped by an automated and shut down door...

Bennie: Now, if I were a ten-tonne terraforming robot, the answer would be obvious. [cut to Sawtooth already inside the building]Sawtooth: Doors are for the weak.

Although at least he cleans up after himself. He also threatens to do this as a means of gaining entrance without actually having to.

Noemi: You didn't have to break in y'know. Snow: But it's no fun to just knock on the door.

In Rusty and Co., the barbarian Robespierre exits the Proverbial Hook tavern right through the side wall in level-8-66.

Web Original

Cerberus Daily News has a justified example. During the "Down with Discord" storyline, the battle converges on Discord's personal quarters. He has his guards with him, and they are covering the door against a small army of mercenaries. Then Desta T'Res takes out a demo charge, and blows a hole in the wall. Justified by the fact that the door was heavily guarded.

Narrowly averted in Suburban Knights. One of the teams breaks into a stranger's house and realizes the Voice of the Ancients that they've been looking for is under the floor. They nearly start ripping it up until the woman they tied up points out that there's a basement.

The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters has a story where Peter Perfect tries to break out of jail, but can't break through the adamantium cell door — so he uses his sword's telekinesis to punch through two stories up to him and then proceeds to saw a hole through the floor to let himself out. Later on, other disgusting characters note that they should build their structures with adamantium-laced mortar, or else any two-bit disgusting character can punch their way out.

Western Animation

In one episode of Cyberchase, the Hacker hires a group of gargoyles to help in his latest evil plan. A Running Gag in the episode is that they keep crashing through the walls of his base of operations whenever they leave or exit.

Hacker: Use the door next time!

In one of Doug's Quailman fantasies, Dr. Rubbersuit lures Quailman into his lab and then splits him up into a good and evil half in the hopes of enlisting the evil half's help. This backfires when the evil half simply wants to cause wanton destruction without anything to do with Dr. Rubbersuit, and he breaks out of the lab by flying through the roof. The good half then goes after him by flying through another section of roof, causing Dr. Rubbersuit to cry "Hey! At least use the same hole!"

In "Hearts and Hooves Day", at several points Cheerilee (while under the effect of a Love Potion) opts to break down the doors rather than opening them.

In "Castle Sweet Castle", Bulk Biceps plows through the wall to enter the spa, then plows through it again to exit. Annoyed, Aloe remarks, "I hate it when he does that."

When cheering up Rainbow Dash in "Tanks for the Memories", the Mane Six enter her room the conventional manner, except for Pinkie, who simply hops in through a wall (while saying "Knock knock!"). It's a far less destructive example than most — as Rainbow Dash's house is made of clouds, the hole immediately seals itself.

G.I. Joe, during the "Arise Serpentor, Arise" arc. In his attempt to arrest every one of his treacherous underlings, Cobra Commander blows up a perfectly functional door in order to make a flashy entrance. He even orders the people he intended to arrest to fix it when he leaves.

In Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, as Shaggy and Scooby escape a villain (a supposed ghost of a Chinese emperor), this exchange occurs as they board up a door to hide behind:

Shaggy: Ha! He won't be getting through that door! [the entire wall the villain's behind lifts up like a curtain]Shaggy: ...And wouldn't you know he comes through the wall?

Referencing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there's a scene in "The Old Man And The C-Student", where an elderly Native American man dramatically throws a water fountain through the window and jumps out, prompting the Old Jewish man to yell after him. Later in the scene, the man throws the fountain back through another window and jumps up again because he forgot his hat.

Barney actually pulled off the parody in "So, It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show" — after Homer refused beer after being hospitalized from an exploding Duff can, Barney (unsuccessfully) smothers him with a pillow and does the fountain-through-the-window gag.

Moe: He really needs a girlfriend.

In "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", when the family travels to Japan, Homer does this repeatedly by walking through shoji doors, apparently not getting the concept that they slide, insisting "I don't have time for that!". He even does this when he and Bart go to prison! (But only after the bail is paid, and the door is actually opened.)

Subverted for laughs in "The Springfield Connection", where Marge becomes a cop. One obstacle was a brick wall that she thought she had to climb. Chief Wiggum remarks "Huh, women. Always having trouble with the wall. They can't seem to use the door." The shot then goes to the rest of the recruits (all male) walking nonchalantly through a door.

In an episode, the now-addleminded Baxter walks through the wall five feet to the left of the door to April's office. April manages to trick him into leaving. When he realizes this and comes back, he walks past the hole he made earlier, past the door, and breaks through the wall on the other side. This is made funnier by the fact that the door was open at the time. Later in the episode, the Turtles run past both the first hole and the open door to go through the second hole.

He does this in a later appearance as well, breaking into a lab and leaving a Baxter-shaped hole in the wall to the left of an open door, which tips Raphael off as to who the culprit is.

In the Imaginationland trilogy of South Park, this becomes a Running Gag, with Cartman always breaking through the window in the room, in a different spot if necessary.

Roberto once breaks himself and Bender out a robot asylum using this technique. He has Bender on a table, and the two have a conversation while Roberto is smashing through walls. When asked when they plan to escape, Roberto responds, "About five seconds ago." Zoom out to them on the lawn, and a hole punched in the building.

One The Fairly OddParents! episode, "Information Stupor Highway," had "parental battering rams", which are used by parents to break into their kids' rooms. They always say "(child's name), I'm respecting your privacy by knocking, but asserting my authority as a parent by coming in anyway" before doing it, and it's transparently obvious they just want to break something because they never give a kid the chance to open the door. Timmy's Dad also did the "never go through the same hole" joke, and mentioned he needs to remember to hire a contractor to repair the wall. Good thing that Timmy can just wish the wall fixed. The same cannot be said for other kids' poor, battered walls. And That's Terrible.

It is a Running Gag that the Powerpuff Girls always leave the building they are in by smashing through the ceiling.

In their origin story, it was revealed that the Professor's house did not originally have the three large circular windows on the top floor. The Powerpuff Girls cut them out with their laser vision so they could leave easily and quickly without (relatively) damaging the house.

Mojo Jojo complains a few times that the Girls smashing through the walls of his evil lair has cost him a lot of money in repairs. Mojo lampshades this in the comic book story "Micro Managing" (DC run, issue #68) when Blossom arrives to discuss a matter with him and she knocks on the door:

Mojo: Powerpuff Girl Blossom, what are you doing politely knocking on my door when you usually and rudely burst through my ceiling in an unwelcome and uninviting manner?

A commercial for The Powerpuff Girls showed them smashing through the ceiling, only for the hole to be patched with wood, then bricks only to get destroyed each time. The last shot finally shows the hole turned into an opening with an "Exit" sign... only for the girls to break through the wall.

Lampshaded in one episode where a Hollywood producer making a movie starring the girls has a breakaway wall ready for them to smash through, not that they really need a wall that breaks easily.

In the Freakazoid!! episode "Dexter's Date", Freakazoid crashes through a wall full of TV monitors while trying to stop the Lobe. The Lobe immediately scolds him for causing damage and not using the door instead.

In the Legion of Super-Heroes episode "The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow; Part 2", Kell-El flies up through the roof, leaving Superman to look through the resultant hole and remark, "I'm guessing they don't have doors in the future." (Kell-El is from the 41st Century.)

There is one episode where Billy repeatedly exits his home by breaking through the doors and windows. He doesn't stop until he realizes, in dismay, that he's broken through them all. At which point he's trapped, as apparently leaving through the holes was completely out of the question. Then again, this IS Billy we're talking about...

And after that, he does leave through the door, so that he can go to his friend's house and jump through his window!!

Not to mention the fact that, after jumping through a window, he kept returning into the house where Mandy and Grim were still dressed as clowns (in an attempt to scare out Billy's fear of them), apparently having forgotten why he ran away in the first place. He'd then see them again and repeat the process.

Given his comment during that gag, he actually forgot where he ran away from as well.

In "Bearded Billy" Billy accidentally turns himself into a Sasquatch (by using too much hair tonic). He hides in his room. Later, Mandy kicks the door open.

Secret Squirrel (at least in the original series) would always dismay his boss by never leaving through the door.

In Super Secret Secret Squirrel, it's his method of entrance. Usually non-destructive, though. Morocco Mole's attempt at the same — well, that varies.

Subverted in one episode where Secret actually enter the office through the front door. The same episode that showed the only time the chief was worried where Secret would pop up from today.

In the dream sequence Rugrats episode "Visitors from Outer Space", Angelica, after being abducted, steals a high-tech alien device and uses it to blast through several doors to escape from the ship. Finally, a prisoner who's escaping with her says, "You know, these doors do open automatically."

In the Hey Arnold! episode "Field Trip," Arnold and Grandma go to break into an aquarium to free an unhappy turtle named Lockjaw. At one point, Grandma uses a rope and grappling hook to climb over a barrier maybe five feet high, while Arnold simply walks around it.

In one episode of The Wild Thornberrys, Eliza, Darwin, and Donnie, are trying to cross an island as quickly as possible to catch a boat on the other side. On the way there, they have to climb a mountain. Eliza does it the hard and dirty way, while Darwin and Donnie simply take the visitor's trail that Eliza never sees.

Nanny from Count Duckula, in a lethal combination of absent-mindedness and not knowing her ownstrength, much to the frustration of Duckula. Hell, in the first episode, she knocks on the door, then smashes through it.

In an episode, Ron uses a pair of oversized dogs to bust down the door of Professor Dementor's secret lab. Counts as a Crowning Moment of Funny for Dementor, the one Straight Man in the show's rogues gallery.

Dementor:Vha-vhy did you kick down ze door? It vasn't even locked. I JUST HAD IT PAINTED!

In "Mad Dogs and Aliens", Drakken instructs Warmonga to get rid of Shego, first saying "Show her the door" and then (after she simply tells Shego where to find the door) "Make her leave through the door". The latter instruction is also applied a bit too literally.

Drakken: Well... I didn't mean literally through the actual door, but um...

Launchpad: Uh, D.W., why couldn't we go through the gate like everyone else? Darkwing: Because I am not like everyone else.

The Critic: Jay enters his apartment to find Duke waiting for him and asks how he got in, to which he responds, "I have my ways." Jay then notices a huge hole in the wall. Duke later leaves the same way. Apparently using Jay Sherman as a weight is a great way to get Super Strength!

The Incredible Hulk animated series has the Hulk leaping towards Doctor Doom's lair, and after smashing up his enforced cage, he makes for the door to do the same thing, until it opens by itself, to which the Hulk simply says: "Oh." Doctor Doom then says "There was a door, you destructive brute."

The Looney Tunes short "An Itch of His Own" starts with the Mighty Angelo the Flea breaking down the door to his dressing room of a flea circus; inside he leaves a note to his manager that he's going on vacation, with a P.S. saying, "I'll fix the door when I get back."

Captain Caveman introduces himself in this way. After talking to Birdman, he vaults through the wall a workman had just finished patching.

Birdman himself did it when he was a superhero, in the Flashback Episode. He melts Reducto's door with his powers:

Reducto: That was an automatic door. All you had to do was step in front of it and it would have slid open. X the Eliminator: Here he comes! I'll open the door for him. [Birdman blasts his way through the roof] Or he can use the ceiling.

Perry the Platypus breaks down the door to Dr. Doofenshmirtz's apartment a few too many times. Given the openness of their relationship, Doc doesn't even bother locking it. He even gave Perry his key. So whenever Perry bursts through the wall/door/ceiling/etc., Doofenshmirtz is justifiably annoyed.

At least once, Perry bursts in and Doofenshmirtz declares, "Perry the Platypus! You will PAY!" Perry takes out his wallet and pays for the broken door. "That's right, fork it over."

Taken to a ridiculous extreme when Doofenshmirtz builds a trap consisting of a door with a Perry-shaped hole in it, claiming to have been inspired by Perry breaking through the door... and the wall... and the ceiling... and the fridge door (apparently Perry was extremely hungry on that occasion).

In "Chez Platypus", Doofenshmirtz re-enforces the lock on his door, but not the door itself, so when Perry goes to kick it down, he gets his foot stuck in the hole he made.

In "S'winter", Doofenshmirtz prepared a trap at the front door, but Perry evaded it because the maid forgot to lock the backdoor.

In "Tri-Stone Area", set in 27,000 B.C.E., Doofenshmirtz's ancestor only grunts and laughs, but when a platypus-like animal breaks through a hole in his cave, he makes primitive noises while pointing to the giant cave entrance, which is about two feet from where Perry broke in.

The evil Kryptonians Jax-Ur and Mala just fly through any building they meet in a straight line. This is used to emphasize how they don't care about the humans at all. In the same fight, Superman flies around the buildings.

Joker: Nice entrance. Either you've never heard of a door or you just like pulling glass out of your shorts!

An early Justice League episode "Injustice for All" ruins a Big Damn Heroes moment when five of the heroes bust into the villains' lair. Hawkgirl breaks down the door, Superman breaks the wall next to the door, and Green Lantern goes through the window next to the hole Superman made.

An episode in Danny Phantom has Jack and Maddie bursting through the wall of Sam's bedroom in order to ask her and Tucker if they had seen Danny. They leave by busting open another part of the same wall. Knowing this to be a common occurrence, Maddie disappointingly tells Sam to send the bill their way.

When the first trailer of Wolverine and the X-Men came out, fans quickly began to joke about Wolverine's obvious problem with opening doors normally, since the trailer contains at least three scenes of him kicking a door in, with a few more by MRD soldiers. While the first episode does then indeed contain several scenes of Wolverine kicking doors, the second one actually shows him opening a door in Magneto's Citadel. However the same episode also contains a scene of Cyclops blasting dozens of doors open, apparently too lazy to open them by hand. During the rest of show, there seems to be a competition between Wolverine and Cyclops on how many doors to crush in or how many new entrances they can create.

In the The Super Hero Squad Show, the Hulk is... about as bad with doors as the other versions. At one point, he's told to use the door, so he rips the doors off of their hinges, and smashes them to pieces. Afterwards, he decided he preferred his way.

Invader Zim once features a floating screen... thing bursting through a wall to deliver a message to Dib. When it was done, it turned around, moved aside, and proceeded to blast another hole to exit.

In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, instead of waiting for his rather incompetent replacement astromech droid to open a door, Anakin cuts through it. Most Jedi seem to prefer cutting holes in walls, even when a door is in plain sight.

In an accidentally hilarious way in Mister T. In one episode a door spontaneously explodes to reveal Mr. T behind it. Supposedly he kicked it down like he always does, but the animation didn't suggest any kicking.

Virtually no-one in Teen Titans can be bothered to use doors. They just break through windows, walls, and even the doors themselves! It's made even funnier by the fact that most of the doors open automatically.

This is more Robin's schtick in Teen Titans Go!, as he regularly leaves (and enters) Titan Tower through the windows rather than take the elevator down to the front door. Many examples are caused by him being a drama queen. The rest are likely him following in Batman's footsteps (as mentioned in the Comics section above).

In "Andreas' Fault" The Forever Knights blast a hole in a building where Ben is signing autographs despite a double door being not three feet from one side of the hole. They apparently felt that they needed to enter in formation.

Referenced in "Fused" when bad guy Agregor crashes through the ceiling... twice. The second leading a rather annoyed Kevin to tell him there's a door.

Season 3 has the breakout of the Red Lotus. Despite there being a perfectly functional elevator down to P'Li's prison, Ming-Hua opts instead to tunnel into said prison and climb all the way back up with P'Li in tow.

Tony Stark moans about this one more than one occasion, like when Thor bursts through the floor rather than coming up the stairs, or the Hulk kicks a hole in the door (even though they open automatically). Understandable, given that it's usually Tony's private property that's getting smashed up.

Hank Pym makes a similar complaint when Ulysses Klaw and his henchmen smash down the door of his lab. "You know, that door didn't have a lock on it. You could've just opened it."

Beavis and Butt-Head actually subvert this trope: the title characters watch a RoboCop-like series and Butt-Head gets the idea to imitate that. Beavis runs into their house head first... and proceeds to knock himself out, upsetting Butt-Head that he screwed it up.

[notices all the Transbormers partying in his house]Sam: How did they get in my house? Optimus: Maybe they found the spare key? Sam: I don't have a spare key. Optimus: Then maybe from that huge hole in the wall. [screen pans out to show a giant hole in the wall]

In one episode of Stroker and Hoop, Coroner Rick thought Hoop's mom killed herself in prison, so he tried to climb the fence with barbed wire at the top to get into the yard. he's standing about two feet from a guard on his left and a door on his right.

Guard: What the hell are you doing? You can use the door, you work here!Coroner Rick:[hands covered in his blood] I know, I know! Dumb idea.

In the Regular Show episode "Jinx": after Rigby locks the door to escape Ybgir, Mordecai says that won't do any good- there's a big hole in the wall from when Ygbir escaped.

Biker Mice from Mars: The title mice never use the door. They lampshade it in "Back to Mars", when Limburger is using Charley as a bait in a trap that relies on them using the door.

In one episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Shaggy and Scooby are trapped in a cabin with the only door locked and the key on the outside (and no manual lock on the inside), so naturally, the two of them HAVE to break out some other way. Shaggy chooses to leap through the window—in order to grab the key, unlock the door, jump back through the window he busted, and open the now-unlocked front door.

In the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "A Case of Stage Blight", an opera is shown where the hero bursts into the room via Super Window Jump. Later, when the opera is repeated (only with an alligator now in the lead role), the camera focuses on the window, only to have the alligator burst through the wall right next to it.

Dudley Do-Right frequently does this when he is called into Inspector Fenwick's office.

Like the Powerpuff Girls, Underdog almost always smashes through a wall or ceiling when entering or leaving a building. One episode sees Underdog smash through a ship this way, leaving it to take on water. After giving his Hero Insurance catchphrase ("I'm a hero who never fails; I can't be bothered with such details."), the ship's crew calls him on such and insist he fix the hole, which Underdog does.

Sheep in the Big City had an episode where Big Bad General Specific is given superpowers by the Angry Scientist, and keeps leaving and entering the Secret Military Base through the ceiling, creating a new Impact Silhouette every time...except when he returns for the last time, and just walks through the door, even though this time the camera anticipated him smashing through the ceiling and has to pan down.

Real Life

Police and military units will often avoid using the front door of a target building, to gain the element of surprise and to avoid the chance that whoever's on the inside is aiming right at the door with a finger on the trigger.

Case in point: "Operation NIMROD", the SAS assault during the Iranian Embassy Siege, London 1980. Some of the most famous images of the SAS are of officers breaking into the embassy through windows◊ and balconies◊.

Standard practice in urban warfare is called mouse-holing: cutting (or blasting) a hole to move from room to room and building to building. As often as not, this is done because the needs of the military are different than the needs of the previous occupant, so even if there actually was a door, there still wasn't a viable entrance.

Also, in a fortified building there is a good chance that the occupants have boobytrapped any obvious entrances. Making your own entrance is not only the quickest, but also the safest, option.

There's also the briefly fashionable criminal enterprise known as ram-raiding; ram a stolen SUV or backhoe through the wall of an electronics or jewellery store, help yourselves to as much valuable loot as you can carry and run like hell for the getaway car parked in a handy side street. Something of a lost art these days, because most storefronts positioned in such a way that you could get enough speed up to ram through the frontage now have waist-high bollards in front of them. These bollards can stop anything short of a main battle tank.

The placement of these bollards in front of federal buildings became standard practice after 9/11.

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